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Herman Melville: Critic of Christianity
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Reading to Write: Olson's Melville
… a new account of Charles Olson’s work on Herman Melville. The argument traces the role of Melville from Olson’s MA thesis and archival research to Call Me Ishmael, through to considerations of this scholarly activity in the making of his poetry. From the 1930s and 40s to the late 1960s, Olson’s …
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Melville and the Art of Burlesque
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Picturesque Portraiture: The Composition of Reality in Hawthorne, Melville, and James
… authors Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James attempt to invoke a non-idealized “actual” reality of the portrait subject’s person (though in the case of James, it is not reality itself which results, but the appearance of non-idealized “actual” reality).</p> <p>This …
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The Gospel According to Melville : BILLY BUDD as an Altered Christ-Parable
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The Sublime and the Dutiful: Ethics and Excess From Edwards to Melville
… Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. Each, in his own way, shows how the sublime can be dutiful---how it can constitute not one self's recovered and isolated sense of itself, but rather its constitutive connection to others.
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Reflections on political authority and rootlessness in works of Hawthorne and Melville
Like Plato, Hawthorne and Melville engage us in the perennial conversation about how we should live. The literary form of their political reflections recalls the incarnation of political theory in Plato's dialogues. The stories of Hawthorne and Melville enlarge our understandings about political …
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Transnational Translation: Foreign Language in the Travel Writing of Cooper, Melville, and Twain
… in this study--James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain--all use moments of cross-cultural contact and transference to theorize the permeability of the language barrier, seeking a mean between the oversimplification of the translator's task and a capitulation to the utter …
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THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR: MELVILLE AND THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL LITERATURE
… affected the development of both Herman Melville's career and of his reputation through 1930. Melville, as a member of the New York literary group Young America, participated in an effort to define and create a national literature. His apprenticeship was served under the influence of …
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Hieroglyphic, Oral, and Performative: (Re)Evaluating Resistance to Colonialism in the Works of Melville
Herman Melville’s legacy in nineteenth-century American literary studies remains prolific. Recent scholarly inquiry, such as those by Christopher Freeburg, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Birgit Brander Rasmussen, critically read key texts of Melville for their unique depictions of Polynesian and African …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, and, especially, James Joyce, Kerouac used the influence of his predecessors to formulate his own style of writing-spontaneous prose. The critics who label Kerouac as a cultural icon akin to James Dean fail to see Kerouac as a serious …
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Writing Indigenous Identity in Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad's Polynesian and Malay Archipelago Novels
… simply sensitive, imaginative writing. Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad’s five books set in the Polynesian and Malay Archipelagos—<em>Typee </em>and <em>Omoo</em> and the Malay Trilogy (<em>Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands,</em> and <em>The Rescue</em>)— are used as master models of …
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Air and brass : faith, philosophy, and events in the first six novels of Herman Melville
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life
… to Sweet Grass County and most specifically, Melville, Montana, population approximately 140. I discovered Melville on a class trip to Sweet Grass County and couldn’t get the community out of my mind. Relatively unchanged for the past three to four generations, these people value hard work and …
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TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life
… to Sweet Grass County and most specifically, Melville, Montana, population approximately 140. I discovered Melville on a class trip to Sweet Grass County and couldn’t get the community out of my mind. Relatively unchanged for the past three to four generations, these people value hard work and …
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